Example sentences of "if [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was well worth going to if only for the scene of the spring cleaning of the dwarfs ’ house . |
| 2 | After that I went down to the kitchen and made a cheese sandwich for lunch and wished I 'd gone with Tremayne if only for the ride . |
| 3 | Like other young people , they want change if only for the sake of it . |
| 4 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 5 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
| 6 | It is not quite so important to duplicate the reel , but it is still wise , if only for the fact that your spare spools are interchangeable on both reels . |
| 7 | The term ‘ indiction ’ has been used earlier in this chapter , and although the system is unlikely to be encountered in isolation by a local historian it is worth recording , if only for the sake of completeness . |
| 8 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 9 | Potential and confirmed breeders of tropical fish really should see this one if only for the many tips they 'll acquire . |
| 10 | However , I suppose I 'll now have to explain this soft/hard vacuum principal more technically , if only for the benefit of Mr.Peavey . |
| 11 | If only for the veracity of the role , he mixed as much as possible with the cast and crew and with the local population . |
| 12 | You would have thought that after so many months of bad publicity , they would have learned how to treat their clients , if only for the sake of their public-relations image . |
| 13 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 14 | Others unashamedly hugged each other as they realised the Government was off the hook , if only for the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ Margaret , ’ I coaxed , ‘ say yes , if only for the General 's sake . |
| 16 | Considering the amount of Pistol-packing product available ( and you could print a booklist here ) , ‘ Kiss This ’ does actually add more , if only for the sleevenotes . |
| 17 | If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language . |
| 18 | But Great Malvern was worth visiting , if only for the best one-liner of the conference , from Joan Beck , chief inspector of Doncaster SSD : ‘ Equal opportunities is all very well until someone else gets the job you wanted . ’ |
| 19 | This challenge is a peculiar one , at the moment , not merely because a good photographer must try ( if only for the sake of his own integrity ) to make something visually ‘ different ’ from the mass of photography which has gone before , but also because the Opera House is obscured at present by building operations . |
| 20 | The whole book is worth buying if only for the fourteenth-century teddy bear and cuddly elephant in colour in plate 27 . |
| 21 | Thanks to McAlpine Helicopters , the Aerospatiale helicopter distributor for the UK , I was given the chance to join the PPL rotor wing elite … if only for the day . |
| 22 | The single , simple reason for the biography 's size is that , in the effort to come up with what , if only for the number of facts it contains , must rank as definitive , Ackroyd has scoured not just every imaginable source but also quite a few unimaginable ones as well . |
| 23 | There follows the observation that the need for responsiveness to rapid technological change and fluctuating economic climate requires management to involve employees in the process of making decisions , if only for the practical reason that there will be great difficulty in carrying through decisions against resistance by trade unions . |
| 24 | In its flight from the French security services once the war in Europe had broken out , the Party had , if only inadvertently , operationalized its interest in the peasantry ; if only for the fact that , in leaving the towns , they were now living amongst them . |
| 25 | The first idea is of a metaphorical and anthropomorphic kind , and the second and third also call out for analysis , if only for the reason that there are other non-causal pairs of things such that the first explains the second and the second depends on the first . |
| 26 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 27 | With the advent of Lloyd George , who as President of the Board proved to be no mean performer at the art of conciliation , the policy of promoting " permanent machinery " , industry by industry , for the settlement of disputes began to move into top gear , if only for the reason that no alternative policy seemed to be available . |
| 28 | Why could n't she slide out of herself and be someone else , if only for the ten seconds it would take to push open the door of the hotel and step across the threshold ? |
| 29 | This challenge is a peculiar one , at the moment , not merely because a good photographer must try ( if only for the sake of his own integrity ) to make something visually ‘ different ’ from the mass of photography which has gone before , but also because the Opera House is obscured at present by building operations . |
| 30 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |